A computer security researcher has released an upgraded tool that can simplify the placement of difficult-to-detect malicious software in Microsoft’s .Net framework on Windows computers. The tool, ...

Not long ago, miscreants who wanted to buy an exploit kit — automated software that helps booby-trap hacked sites to deploy malicious code — had to be fairly well-connected, or at least have access to ...

A security researcher has released a set of instructions for exploiting a security flaw in the wireless Internet devices built into millions of new laptops … An attacker could use the flaw to take ...

A new online resource aims to make it easier to gauge the relative security risk of using different types of popular software, such as Web browsers and media players.